I just can’t – stand what’s happened to my country, that is. This isn’t America, I want to say. But it has been, is, of late. Today’s display of lawlessness and anarchy is simply wrong.
Tag: Government
Clear Vision Needed
A friend of mine posted a video recently where she encouraged us to – not think about the things we don’t want, but about those
123 Years, Idaho. Now, for the Next Frontier…
Idaho can be proud that its courageous past made it the 4th state in our country to give women the right to vote. On November 3,
Bloodsport, Betrayal: the problem with politics
Unfortunately, a small-time local kingmaker had another candidate he preferred. “Teri,” he told me when he called to intimidate me into bowing out, “if you make us lose this appointment, you won’t have a future in politics.”
Wake Up, America: why attachment matters
If we are not to implode, we’ve got to stop putting Bandaids on this thing. It’s not as much about the size of prisons and sentencing reform as it is about fixing people: adults who are already damaged, and prevent children from going down this road. Intervention and prevention. Now.
To the degree we solve this thing, our nation will endure. But look at the impacts of the opioid crisis, homelessness, anger. If we continue to do nothing it only gets worse.
Nasty, But Necessary: picking up poop, paying taxes
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
Winston Churchill (November, 1936)
Dispatches From Out West 